[Rhodes22-list] Hello, for the fifth time

[R22RumRunner at aol.com]

Peter,
Welcome to the list and now officially you have left the ranks of being a  
lurker. That's what we call people that read the postings, but either are 
afraid  to join in or wait until they are comfortable to post.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 8/5/2010 12:38:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
peterklappert at comcast.net writes:



Dear Rhodies,

This message will eventually explain  itself, I hope.

I just figured out why none of my postings have gone  out to the list: I 
originally registered using a different email address.  Since mail to that 
address is forwarded to the address I'm now using, I didn't  realize there was 
a disconnect. It was making me paranoid. ("Help! The  paranoids are after 
me!")

So here was my 4th attempt to say  hello:

Hello to everyone. I joined the list back in June and have  enjoyed 
listening to the conversation. I've also sent 3 messages which never  came back to 
me--via the list or via a "can't be delivered" message.  

Since I'm just a stowaway on the list--I don't yet have my own  Rhodes--I 
thought maybe I needed to go through some kind of initiation rite.  The weird 
thing is that I can't find those earlier in my Drafts or Sent  folders.

The most recent message was for those who've been comparing  notes on 
outboards: the latest issue of Practical Sailor has a review of the  updated 4hp 
and 6hp Yamaha's & it's overwhelming positive. (Vol.26 #8,  August 2010. 
WWW.practical-sailor.com)

In the 2nd attempt to join you,  I was just piping up about SAILING BIG.... 
I think I've read most of the books  about trailerable pocket cruisers now 
in print, and SAILING BIG is one of the  most useful. There's a new book I 
saw get favorable notice in SAILING or  CRUISING WORLD: THE SAILOR'S BOOK of 
SMALL CRUISING SAILBOATS. It's virtually  an encyclopedia & covers 360 boats 
under 26 feet. It's full of useful  specs, drawings, etc., though of course 
it can't be very specific about any of  the 360. But the author seems to 
have something against Stan's boats, both the  Picnic (he uses "supposedly" 3 
times in the commentary) and the Rhodes 22--so  much so that it makes me 
distrust his other commentaries. He implies Philip  Rhodes didn't design the 
Rhodes-22.

I just looked: I saved my first  attempt to reach you guys as a WordPerfect 
doc, so I'll just paste that in  here by way of one more introduction. 

The original attempt, June  14:

"Frank, Lee, Dan & any other Rhodes22 folks in the DC  area--

"I've just started reading the Rhodes22 List, and it's a great  
recommendation for buying the boat. (Probably the best recommendation after  Stan 
himself.)

"I currently split my time between DC and Apollo Beach  FL. I'll probably 
buy a trailerable cruiser within the year, and I'm pretty  sure it will be a 
Rhodes22. But I'd feel like a damned fool doing so without  ever being 
aboard one, let alone sailing one. 

"If someone is looking  for crew in the DC area this summer, or in the 
Tampa Bay / Sarasota area after  mid-September, I hope they'll get in touch. 
(I'm in FL right now but will be  back in DC by 6/20)

"Meanwhile, I'll keep learning from the list!  Thanks to you all"

And I HAVE been learning, thanks to you  all.

--Peter

Peter Klappert
Washington, DC & Apollo  Beach, FL
peterklappert at comcast.net




----- Original  Message -----
From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To:  "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent:  Wednesday, August 4, 2010 8:37:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] W T  F

Well, my excuse is that I've been travelling not sailing and then all  
of a sudden Eudora stopped being able to send email. My ISP swore it  
wasn't them so I've been fussing with antivirus and firewall only to  
discover that some info they gave me a month ago when I started get  
certificate errors was part of the problem. I think I may have solved  
it (for now - maybe)

Mary Lou


Peter  Klappert
Peterklappert at comcast.net
Washington, DC  & Apollo  Beach
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